The first episode of this Third Doctor Adventures box-set from Big Finish is available as a free download to newsletter subscribers, so I took the opportunity to listen to it last night. The first issue to address is the recasting of the 3rd Doctor as Tim Treloar. I’m pleased to report […]

The Transcendence of Ephros, part 1

The first story of the second season of the Fouth Doctor Adventures from Big Finish opens with a strange weasely man taking his fiancée home to meet his aunt and guardian.  It isn’t long before we discover that the aunt isn’t just giving her approval for the upcoming nuptials. Meanwhile, […]

4DA2.01 The Auntie Matter

The final episode eventually reveals the Master’s real plan.  It’s a typical over-complicated plan with the necessary apocalyptic consequences to resolve a relatively minor problem.  Very Master-like.  And the Doctor solves all the problems in a typical non-apocalyptic sideways look at the danger. In all, this has been a great […]

4DA1.06 The Oseidon Adventure, cont’d

The Oseideon Adventure continues directly on from Trail of the White Worm. It’s not entirely necessary to have listened to the previous adventure prior to this one, except that the cliffhanger that begins the adventure would be a little confusing if you come into it fresh. The non-spoiler review is […]

4DA1.06 The Oseidon Adventure

Now this is more like it! Whether it’s because this story continues on a second CD, thus making it a four-parter (I guess), is something that’ll be made clear later however, the first episode is much better than anything else of this first season of the 4th Doctor Adventures from […]

4DA1.05 Trail of the White Worm

After multiple attempts to get to see Butley, and running away, and trying to see him again, The Tao Connection kind of fizzles out on its own due to a disagreement between the villains. It didn’t really need Sarah-Jane and her team to be involved in this one at all.  […]

The Tao Connection, cont’d

This, the second in Big Finish’s Sarah-Jane Smith Adventures, continues in much the same way as the first.  Now that the characters have been introduced, it plays out just like a regular episode of a series.  The characters are a little more familiar now, so the audio has a “Midsomer […]

The Tao Connection

Comeback is the first of Big Finish’s Sarah Jane Smith adventures (not to be confused with the later TV series for the kiddie audience) starring the late Elisabeth Sladen begins as a bit of a disjointed affair. The first scene sees Sarah mourning over the loss of her Aunt Lavinia, […]

Comeback

I’ve been listening to the Big Finish free except from their audio classic The Invisible Man starring the late John Hurt last night.  The excerpt is the first 20 minutes of the full 2-hour release that’s due out in February. I’m more familiar with various televised versions and movies of […]

The Invisible Man, excerpt.

The Daleks’ plan turned out to be slightly different than I surmised, with the energy being used to create an energy cocoon around the Earth to use gravity to throw the moon out of orbit and cause such destruction on Earth that the humans will be made extinct before they […]

4DA1.04 Energy of the Daleks, cont’d

The Energy of the Daleks from Big Finish is an example of how the two-episode limitation shows itself up, like a nooWHO episode, of being too short.  Even though each episode is 30 minutes, giving us a 1hr adventure, rather than 45 minutes on TV, you can tell that the […]

4DA1.04 Energy of the Daleks

I listened to the rest of The Wrath of the Iceni last night and, sadly, it doesn’t improve much. There is no real plot to the story beyond the Doctor getting locked up, escaping (thanks to a woman), caught, locked up again, escaping (thanks to Leela), etc, before he finally […]

4DA1.03 The Wrath of the Iceni, cont’d